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Re: Produced some tunes + mix page

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:41 am
by Concept
Ross wrote:
Concept wrote:A Korg sounds like a good idea. I was this close to picking up the Electribe before I went for the Circuit. What's the gear that you most return to? I read in another thread that you're mostly hardware-based these days?
I'd love to be one of those people have has a fairly consistent approach but frankly I just get bored easily. I'll open up a DAW and work on a track and just go "oh God not this again" and scrap the whole thing and go "nope I'm just going to play my guitar this time around".
Out of the DAWs that you've used, which is the one you'd recommend is easiest to get your head around working with midi-gear and structuring wavs in terms of sequencing?
Digitana are doing the building and developing the concepts and sounds themselves with the band, but that's probably as deep as we'll get. They wouldn't want to ruin the mystery.
Aye, that's one of the things I like about them. In this day and age, it's too easy to completely rob something of its mystique.

Re: Produced some tunes + mix page

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 11:47 am
by Concept
Shorter pieces this time around. : )

Quiet Corners



Gate



A call from the unknown



Crack


Re: Produced some tunes + mix page

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 3:52 pm
by Ross
Concept wrote:Out of the DAWs that you've used, which is the one you'd recommend is easiest to get your head around working with midi-gear and structuring wavs in terms of sequencing?
Ableton Live is fairly intuitive, and has both the session and arrange views, which means you can use it as a standard DAW for sequencing, or use it more like a groovebox and do on-the-fly live stuff (which can they be edited in the arrange window like a DAW later). It's easy to understand why it's so popular these days.

That said for MIDI and audio integration, my personal favourite is actually Reaper, which I use if I'm not doing live jams or heavy audio treatments.

Re: Produced some tunes + mix page

Posted: Tue Feb 20, 2018 7:34 pm
by Concept
I had a free download come with the Circuit for Ableton Live, but you need to register the device with a number underneath its bar code and before I updated it's firmware a few weeks ago, it had got scuffed to the point of being unreadable. Sucks. : (

I know I need to get into a software sequencer sooner or later though. Audacity is great, but it feels like what it actually is - an audio editor. Lining 8 to 10 waveforms up together, even if they're in the same tempo, can be tricky to keep track of when you're cutting up to and fro.

Anyway, did some more tracks today.

Schism



Shell



To the One who made the beautiful music


Re: Produced some tunes + mix page

Posted: Wed Feb 21, 2018 11:21 am
by Concept
First track with vocals in.

Beyond Time's Past


Re: Produced some tunes + mix page

Posted: Thu Feb 22, 2018 12:19 am
by xerkon
I like the artwork almost as much as the songs! Right on!

Re: Produced some tunes + mix page

Posted: Fri Feb 23, 2018 12:33 am
by Concept
Thanks. : )

Third album up and done.


Re: Produced some tunes + mix page

Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2018 6:23 am
by Concept
Fourth album down.


Re: Produced some tunes + mix page

Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2018 10:12 pm
by Concept
First remix. We Have Explosive.


Re: Produced some tunes + mix page

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 12:16 pm
by xerkon
Wonderful! For some weird unknown reason I kept picturing myself on a slab in an alien lab (bonus for the rhyme!) waiting to be operated on. Made me want to say, "I think I'm a bit afraid," in the best of ways. Did you sample from the track? Which version of it?

Re: Produced some tunes + mix page

Posted: Wed Mar 21, 2018 9:48 am
by Concept
Yeah, I sampled from the album version in several places. Tried to mix it with Gamelan and retro computer sounds, because... why not?

New Track. Abstracted ambientosis.


Re: Produced some tunes + mix page

Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 5:38 am
by Concept

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Re: Produced some tunes + mix page

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 1:08 am
by Concept

Re: Produced some tunes + mix page

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2018 2:04 am
by Concept
Something a bit lighter.



And something a bit darker.



Another.